----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- The word "happiness" can be as "weasel" a word as "social". Jeremy Bentham was a very important voice in England that spoke about happiness in the late eighteenth century, and then all the utilitarians rushed after him. But Bentham's notion of happiness was critically different than, say, Jefferson's. There is indeed a wide berth between the individual and State-limiting right to the "pursuit of happiness" and the indefinitely expanding role of a State trying to achieve "the greatest happiness of the greatest number". Carlos Rodríguez Braun ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]